All Areas Accessed - Sequel to Access All Areas

Chapter Three

Dinner was interestingly lively. I made a point of sitting myself right next to Clara, which certainly kept both Will and Cameron on their toes. My well-meaning friend couldn't help but be amused as I chatted back and forth with the slightly overwhelmed journalist. Whereas Cam, who made the same point by sitting on the other side of Clara, just kind of sulked throughout most of dinner. It was only when Mariana, my sweet and kind little nutritionist, had threatened him with a wheatgrass shot, did he at least try and look like he was enjoying himself just a little bit. I think I know his problem. He likes Clara, but he knows I like her too. It would appear, that we have ran into an unusual conflict of interest. He is my publicist. He is the one who all along, has been in the driving seat for this interview. To persuade me to even agree to it, he had told me that my reputation has been badly tarnished with all of the recent fall outs that I have been having with the press, and figured that an up close and personal interview with one of the most popular celebrity magazines in England, would give my press image a big and positive boost as we were wrapping up my world tour. The only thing that Cam hadn't counted on, was us both being attracted to the intriguing little journalist who would be heading up that interview. So yeah, I get why he's pissed. Professionally, he has a lot riding on this interview. And personally, we have never been interested in the same babe before. And Clara is a babe. She is not only beautiful, she is also articulate and intelligent. In that pretty head of hers, is a strong-willed mind. I don't usually have or want, the time to really talk with a woman. Yet with Clara, I am finding that I really do want to talk to her. Which is just as well, because she is here to interview me. And it's that very reason, that is getting to Cam.

Clara is here to find out all she can about me. Which not only gives me time alone with her, it also allows me to find out more about who she is as a person. Cameron doesn't have that access. He doesn't have that reason to be alone with her. I'd like to keep it that way for now. I only have a couple of days to discover who Clara Thorn is, and I don't want to spend those two days trying to keep my publicist from pinching Clara from right beneath my nose.

I know I have no claim to her. I don't even know why it's so important to me that I keep Cam away from her.

I only know that it is.

There is just something so different about her.

I can't say what it is.

It's more something I feel.

With Clara, I feel different.

So when we arrived at the stadium, I was buzzing. The adrenaline that was pumping around my body, rejuvenated me. I felt like I was doing my very first show all over again, and I knew that amazing feeling was being felt because Clara was going to watch me perform.

Backstage is always chaotic just before a big show, so I asked Will to make sure that Clara was well looked after. I wanted her backstage experience to be a pleasant one. I wanted her to be able to get the very best shots with her camera and feel like she was getting that up close and personal interview that her magazine really wants her to deliver.

Which is exactly what Clara did.

She shadowed me everywhere I went, taking informal shots and asking lots of questions along the way. And the funny thing was, I enjoyed every moment of it. I was having so much fun, I even flirted a little with her during the Meet and Greet. I had called her over and introduced her to everyone there. I was actually showing her off. I was showing her off, because I could. I was subtly trying to lay claim to her in a playful way. But it was only when I put my arm around her, telling everyone there that we were cooking up something pretty special between us, that I realised that maybe we really could be. Because when she had looked up at me, there was coy delight dancing in her teal eyes before she casually removed herself from my enthusiastic hold in order to take some more shots.